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Call toll-free 1-888-966-8687 or visit nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/explore May 13, 2015 Volume 115, Number 12 An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 PRESIDENT’S PAGE 2 Little Cannon splashed in INBOX 5 Rutgers red in 2004, page 36 FROM THE EDITOR 7 ON THE CAMPUS 15 Freedom of expression, freedom from hate Archives Divestment vote Learning why you got in Donation funds music building Princetonian SPORTS: Tennis star succeeds through balance and discipline Daily Fat Cat rowers Sports shorts The LIFE OF THE MIND 31 Poet Tracy K. Smith writes a memoir Laura Landweber ’89 studies bacterium with a Communications, of complicated sex life PRINCETONIANS 47 Alio/Office Bettina Korek ’00 promotes Los Angeles art scene LGBT Danielle conference Reunions preview 55 YEARS OUT: Henri Bailey ’60 Charles Insler ’03 on friendship and family Wojciechowski, CLASS NOTES 52 Frank MEMORIALS 70 Return of a Treasure 36 The Enigma of the Cannon 42 Randy Schoenberg ’88 tells the story What you didn’t know about the Schaefer, CLASSIFIEDS 77 behind the story of the new movie sinking gun that gives Cannon Green Woman in Gold. its name. Beverly THAT WAS THEN 80 By Zachary Pincus-Roth ’02 By W. 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On the cover: Randy Schoenberg ’88 in front of a poster of the Klimt painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I Photograph by Steve Anderson THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Senior Snapshots: Class of 2015 s the academic year draws to a close and I begin pursue a career in the Army’s special operations community to think about our upcoming Commencement and later in Congress or the Department of Defense. exercises, I marvel at the experiences and accom- Bob has been active in the campus community as a resi- plishments of our graduating seniors. A great dential college adviser in Butler, a member of the Alcohol Apleasure of my job is meeting students through interactions Initiative Committee, and captain of the varsity sprint at campus events, in residential colleges and dining halls, football team. “I am thankful for every moment I had the and during my office hours. I learn about many others from privilege to play a game I love for the school I love,” he says. faculty, deans, coaches, and staff, or through reading about “I had the pleasure to play with some of the best people I’ve their award-winning and inventive exploits inside and met, for some of the best mentors I know, and I am a better outside of the classroom. person for it.” I would accordingly like to use this column to introduce Michael Kochis, of Corapolis, Pennsylvania, has wanted to you to four extraordinary members of the Class of 2015. be a doctor since childhood and is headed to medical school They represent just a small sample of the amazing group after Princeton. A molecular biology major and a certificate of students who will soon join our alumni community. candidate in global health and health I happily could have selected many others — but I hope that policy, his studies have exposed him these four will give you a sense of why I find so much joy to various approaches to promoting in the time that I spend with students, and why all of us CHAGANI healing on a wide scale. Putting those should take tremendous pride in the achievements and the interests into action outside the class- promise of Princeton’s great Class of 2015. room, Michael has been chair of the SHAHEED Katherine Clifton, of Honolulu, is an English concentrator Student Health Advisory Board, a peer and theater certificate candidate whose time at Princeton has health adviser in Whitman College, strengthened her interests in the arts and a volunteer EMT. and her awareness of their social and Michael spent last summer in ALIO political importance. With the Bridge Ghana, conducting research for his Michael Kochis Year Program in Serbia, she helped senior thesis on the impact of vaccina- create an after-school literacy program DANIELLE tions on the spread of rotavirus — an experience for which and taught English. After graduation, he is very grateful. He says, “Traveling to Ghana for eight Katherine will return to Serbia as a weeks to gather my data and immersing myself in a vastly Martin Dale ’53 Fellow, writing and different culture was an eye-opening experience that four staging an original play to explore years ago I would not have dreamed of having.” hostilities between the Serb and Roma Mariah Smith, who came to Princeton from Peoria, people and, she hopes, help bridge Katherine Clifton Illinois, was a four-year member of the varsity women’s their divides. basketball team and co-captain of this Katherine found many outlets for artistic and civic year’s record-breaking squad. She has engagement on campus, from the Princeton Shakespeare balanced her commitment to athletics Company to the Princeton Bhangra dance troupe to the with a major in mechanical and aero- ATHLETICS Undergraduate Student Government. She aims to combine space engineering and certificate study these passions in her career, inspired by one of her most in robotics and intelligent systems; transformative experiences — a Princeton Global Seminar in her senior thesis involved building PRINCETON Greece focusing on ancient playwrights. As Katherine says, a working robotic arm. Mariah also “Realizing that politics was inextricably linked to theater’s has been active in the Reading with inception deepened my respect for theater as a powerful the Tigers program for local school- medium of social and political change.” children, Athletes in Action, and the Mariah Smith Robert Dougherty, who is from National Society of Black Engineers. Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is the After Princeton, Mariah plans to gain work experience Prince ton Army ROTC Tiger in engineering, consulting, or another business before Battalion commander and was selected APPLEWHITE pursuing an MBA, with an eye on running an organiza- three times by his instructors and peers tion that will make the world a better place. Her rigorous as the top cadet in his class. After DENISE schedule of high-level athletics and academics, she says, his commissioning as a U.S. Army “made me incredibly well rounded and confident in my officer, Bob will head to infantry officer abilities to succeed wherever I go. I can truly say that four training and Ranger School in Fort hard years at Princeton is exactly what I needed to reach my Benning, Georgia, and then will serve full potential.” as a light infantry platoon leader in Robert Dougherty Vicenza, Italy. 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